THE CAPITAL TIMES
Take a trip, but don’t
From Philly to Vegas, affordable vacations are avai
By STEPHANIE DIIRBOROW
Staff Reporter
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Summer is in the air my friends.
With less than five weeks of school
left in the semester, summer vacation
is calling our name. After finals, the
only thing on my mind are beaches,
swimming pools, and getting my nice
golden tan.
Unfortunately, my pockets are
running low on cash. So I thought I
would research some inexpensive but
fun vacations for college students.
My first idea was to look around
for bus trips. When I was on the
Greyhound website, www.greyhound,
com. I found that a round-trip ticket
to Atlantic City, NJ leaving from
Harrisburg was only $5O! With gas
prices now days, $5O is a bargain.
Most trips on Greyhound’s schedule
run less than four hours with one or
even zero transfers. Greyhound also
offers trips to New York, Myrtle
Beach, Pittsburgh, and several other
locations all along the east coast.
The next website I decided to research
was Expedia.com. The first thing that
caught my eye was a promotion for
trips to Fort Lauderdale. A round
trip flight from Philadelphia to Fort
Lauderdale with a set up in a four
star hotel for a four-day weekend
was an incredible $533 per person. I
would recommend using the Expedia
website, www.expedia.com, for
planning any vacation involving
resorts and flights. When typing in
your destination and the dates you
want to travel, it automatically gives
results with all sorts of combinations
to make your traveling sufficient
and cheap.
Next stop, Vegas. After logging
onto www.lasvegas.com I found
that if you can keep your gambling
under control, Vegas is totally
affordable! For a flight and a stay at
the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino it’s
only $634. if you want to stay on the
main strip at the very famous Aladdin
Resort and Casino it is $894.
Las Vegas has tons to offer. The
entertainment is endless. Visitors
can see memorable and amazing live
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shows. There are also all kinds of
shopping from street side vendors to
designer stores. Summer is the perfect
season to visit Las Vegas.
For something more close to home,
there is the nearby city of Philadelphia.
With an hour and a half drive from
our campus, you can experience an
array of culture and entertainment.
South Street offers restaurants and
cafe's to fit every taste bud. I don’t
know anyone that could turn down a
real, traditional Philly cheese steak.
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Las Vegas glitters with the infamous glamour of its night life. Flight
and hotel packages are extremely affordable, just watch the slots.
Plus the shopping is incredible and
there are plenty of places to find a
good bargain.
In Philadelphia, there is so much
to see and learn. For a mere $16.95,
you can spend an entire day at the
Philadelphia Zoo. This zoo is the
oldest in the nation. Some of the
centers inside the zoo are the Primate
Reserve, Carnivore Kingdom, and
Rare Animal Conservation Center. Its
tree kangaroos and blue-eyed lemurs
are brand new, but there’s still fun to
be had in the historic, old-style bird
pachyderm and carnivore houses.
Center City Philadelphia also
offers several museums including
The National Liberty Museum, The
African America Museum, and The
National Constitution Center.
go broke
lable to college students
One other amazing aspect of
Philadelphia is the art. The Institute
of Contemporary Arts is an amazing
gallery that everyone should see. For
the price of $6 dollars for admission
it is a must see. For more information
visit www.gophila.com.
So here are only a few examples of
how a college student can turn their
summer into great adventures... for
cheap! So take my advice and get
out there and have some fun w ithout
putting holes in your wallet.
Finance Club brings in top-notch speaker
By STEPHANIE DURBOROW
Staff Reporter
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On Tuesday, April 4, Penn State
Harrisburg was fortunate to have
Martin F Jackson speak in 338-E
Olmsted. The Finance Club has been
attempting to have Mr. Jackson speak
for a long time and finally he came to
speak on campus, sharing his wisdom
and wealth.
Martin Jackson is the CEO of
Select Medical Corporation. Select
Medical Corp., founded in 1996, is
Hola from the Spanish Club
The club’s pot-luck open house lunch proved a huge success for membership
By ASHLEY LOCKARD
Editor in Chief
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On Wednesday, March 29, the Spanish
Club held an open house in order to
make people aware of their regained
presence on campus and promote new
membership. Any student or faculty
w as welcome to attend.
The open house turned out to be
extremely successful for the club.
More than 50 students and faculty
members, including the Chancellor,
attended the event throughout the
afternoon. Those from the Spanish
community ranged from Colombian,
Puerto Rican, Peruvian, and
1 londuran descents to name a few.
Members of the club brought
various Spanish dishes, creating a
pot-luck lunch to share with those
who attended the event. Among the
delicious foods to taste were rice
with pigeon beans, lechion (a pork
dish), and flan for dessert. They also
provided various Spanish drinks
as well including coconut extract,
sangria (non-alcoholic of course),
and Spanish soda.
The club has been working hard to
make a name for itself this semester
and have a lot of good plans for
the future.
One major plan they have is to try
and start an endowment in order
branched out of Mechanicsburg, PA.
It is a multi-million dollar healthcare
facility company.
Select Medical currently operates
specialty hospitals, 608 outpatient
rehabilitation clinics, and also provides
medical rehabilitation services on
contract basis with other facilities. It is
a privately owned company with over
20,000 employees throughout the US.
Select Medical Corp. has been placed
in the 100 Best Places to Work for
three years in a row.
For aspiring Finance majors, Mr.
Jackson is a businessman they can
all look up to. He is a graduate from
to provide a
scholarship for
future students
of the club.
Later this
semester
the club is
organizing a
bus trip to tour
the historic
Latin areas of
Washington
D.C. The trip
will be Open Photo provided by Dr Vargas-Vila
to any student The Spanish Club’s open house provided a vast array of
who wishes Spanish dishes to those who attended their hit event.
to attend.
A performance by Lamda Theta
Phi, a Penn State Latino fraternity,
should be seen later this semester as
well. They will be performing a step
dance routine.
Next semester, the club is going
to try to set up what they call a
Miami Night.
The club’s treasurer, Peter E.
Rodriguez, said, “The event
would be like a formal dance in
order to get people on campus
together socializing.”
This event would involve not only
a dance, but also casino games and
prizes. The event would be held in
order for the club to get students on
campus together socially and to just
have fun. The club is also talking
Temple with an Economics degree.
He later returned to Temple to receiv e
his MBA.
Jackson then worked for various
investment companies and then
in May of 1999, he joined Select
Medical Corp.
A student asked early in his lecture
how he was able to reach such success
in his career.
Mr. Jackson smiled and said, “Luck
and hard work.”
Another way he added to his success
was by making the right decisions,
even though while making them at the
time, he wasn’t sure what was right.
about trying to join together with
XGI to help out with the blood drive
it supports each semester.
The Spanish Club started by
Dr. Vargas-Vila, came to life at
the beginning of this semester.
He asked students he know might
be interested to join the club and up
until the open house had managed to
gain about 15 members. Dr. Vargas-
Vila is also the club’s advisor.
Since the open house the club’s
membership has risen to nearly
50 members.
If you are interested in joining the
Spanish Club, look for its meeting
time in the Campus Calendar or
e-mail Dr. Vargas-Vila at
jlvlO@psu.edu.
During his lecture, Mr. Martin talked
about every step his company took to
become a 1.9 billion dollar company in
net revenue. He asked questions to the
class to make sure students understood
how and why all the business decisions
were made. This way, students could
see a real business grow and in detail
they could see how the business’s
assessments were made.
Having Martin Jackson on campus
was a positive event. He could be
looked at as a role model for some
of our students on campus and as
a delightful, driven, and successful
business man.